Lanistes neritoides, Brown & Berthold, 1990

Cowie, Robert H. & Héros, Virginie, 2012, Annotated catalogue of the types of Ampullariidae (Mollusca, Gastropoda) in the Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Paris, with lectotype designations, Zoosystema 34 (4), pp. 793-824 : 808

neritoides Brown & Berthold, 1990 , Lanistes ( Fig. 5A )

Lanistes neritoides Brown & Berthold, 1990: 121-142 , figs 1-10, 11a-e, 12-37.

CURRENT TAXONOMIC STATUS. — Lanistes . Valid species.

TYPE SPECIMENS. — Holotype MNHN 4515 ; paratypes MNHN 4516 (20 spms, including 15 separate opercula), MNHN 4517 (28 spms, in alcohol).

TYPE LOCALITY. — “Region de Sounda (District de Kayes, 85 kms au N.E. de Pointe Noire), fleuve Kouilou – affluent du Kouilou: la Mombi” [ Republic of the Congo].

REMARKS

Brown & Berthold (1990: 121, 124) indicated 52 paratypes in MNHN (25 shells, with bodies preserved separately, 23 whole animals and four bodies of sacrificed shells) ; there are now 49 in total (20 shells, with 15opercula,in the dry collection,plus,in alcohol, 29 whole animals and 16 animals lacking shells). Paratypes are also in the Natural History Museum,London ( NHMUK 1989.127 , 2 spms; 1989.128, 2 spms, in alcohol), and the Danish Bilharziasis Laboratory, Charlottenlund (2 spms) ( Brown & Berthold 1990) .

Figures

FIG. 5. — A, Lanistes neritoides Brown & Berthold, 1990, holotype MNHN 4515, 12.9 mm; B, Ampullaria neritoides d’Orbigny, 1835, probable syntype MNHN 4519, 97.2 mm; C, Afropomus balanoideus nimbae Binder, 1963, lectotype MNHN 4497, 18.8 mm; D, Ampullaria occlusa Crosse & Fischer in Fischer & Crosse, 1888, holotype MNHN 4514, 49.6 mm; E, Ampullaria ovata Olivier, 1804, syntype MNHN 4513, 64.3 mm; F, Ampullaria oviformis Deshayes, 1830, syntype MNHN 4512, 43.4 mm; G, Ampullaria perakensis Morgan,1885,lectotype MNHN 4511, 33.6 mm; H, Ampullaria peristomata d’Orbigny,1835,syntype MNHN 4509, 38.7 mm; I, Ampullaria pesmei Morlet, 1889, lectotype MNHN 4508, 30.2 mm.